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Your Monday Morning Mental Sorbet: Escalators Will Kill Your Children If They Can
Posted on 11.09.09 by Widge @ 5:56 am
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Escalator Safety

Each week we want to give you a little something odd with which to start your week. Just a bit odd--consider it a vaccine against the WTF that your life will steadily become ensnared in as the work week progresses. But today we want to take the opportunity to warn you...against escalators.
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Halloween Day 16: Vincent Price, Funny Guy
Posted on 10.15.09 by Widge @ 1:05 am
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One of the things you learn, once you get past the obvious horror career of Vincent Price, is that he must have been a helluva fun individual, because he's just such a funny damn guy. I mean, in addition to being an expert on food and being able to pitch products like a genius.

Example here is his appearance on What's My Line? from 1956:

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Another funny bit comes after the break...
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Halloween Day 13: Frankenweenie
Posted on 10.12.09 by Widge @ 1:12 am
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So while we were looking at yet another Frankenstein film for our last movie night, I started trying to figure out how to kick off Day 13 of 32 Days of Halloween. But as always, we look to our heritage (it's shallow, but it's a heritage): last year we were watching Judd Hirsch as Dracula in The Night That Dracula Saved The World. So what if we look at television specials, what can we find?

Ah, of course: we've posted Vincent before but never the other Tim Burton short film, Frankenweenie. Which I've always just thought of as being better than its title. So...here you have it:

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And of course, two years ago we were getting scared silly by the Day of the Dead trailer in Japanese.
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The Legacy of Dr. Swami
Posted on 10.11.09 by Widge @ 3:57 am
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A fantastic short bit where Orson Welles explains for you the secret of "cold reading," how psychics use it, and how he himself used it one time when he got bored.

Direct link for the feedreaders. It took some time, but this eventually found me via Twitter thanks to William Gibson, Colin Peters, and David Metcalfe.

For more along these lines, you can check out a great interview Richard Dawkins conducted with Derren Brown, and they lead off with information on cold reading. We posted the entire interview here.
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Halloween Day 7: One Step Beyond
Posted on 10.06.09 by Widge @ 1:50 am
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So last year we had one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes (with one of the best endings of anything anywhere), "To Serve Man." Of course, we already gave you some Twilight Zone in time for its anniversary, so what to do with ourselves to start Day 7 of 32 Days of Halloween? Well, instead of sticking with the same show--let's explore the same format: the anthology series.

There's nothing I would like better than to post my favorite episode of, say, Amazing Stories, "Go to the Head of the Class." And if you're thinking, "Was that the Halloween episode with Christopher Lloyd?" Then the answer is a resounding YES. What sucks is that episode is second season and only the first season is available Region 1. So damn.

So without that option open to us, we'll slip back to One Step Beyond, the anthology series which purportedly dramatized actual events of High Weirdness. This is the first episode, "The Bride Possessed."

Direct link for the feedreaders.

And because we're on the subject, a word after the jump from a Mr. Mike Patton. (Advisory: inspired noise.)

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